Education Counsellors Supporting Pupils in Education Information

C McEwan made this Freedom of Information request to Buckinghamshire County Council

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From: C McEwan

5 June 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

1. Does your Local Authority presently employ Education
Counsellors* (rather than ‘buying in’ such a service from an
external provider)?

2. If the answer to Question 1 is ‘yes’, please state for each
Education Counsellor employed by the Local Authority:

• Whether they have been deemed to be eligible to join the Teachers
Pension Scheme and

• The date when they joined the Teachers Pension Scheme

• Whether they are employed on Teachers Terms and Conditions of
Employment

3. If your Local Authority does not presently employ Education
Counsellors have they done so in the past?

4. If the answer to Question 3 is ‘yes’, please state for each
School Counsellor employed by the Local Authority since 31 March
2004:

• Whether they were deemed to be eligible to join the Teachers
Pension Scheme and

• When they joined the Teachers Pension Scheme

* Education Counsellors meaning those employed to support pupils in
education

Yours faithfully,

C McEwan

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5 June 2009

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From: Freedom of Information Mailbox
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17 June 2009

Dear C McEwan

Thank you for contacting Buckinghamshire County Council.

We would be very grateful please if you could clarify what you mean by
"Education Counsellors", as there are a number of roles/posts that could be
said to "support pupils in education", for example educational psychologists.
Moreover, we would be most appreciative if you could confirm that you are
interested in school based staff only (i.e. not local authority staff).

Many thanks.

Regards

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From: C McEwan

10 August 2009

Dear Freedom of Information Mailbox,

My only definition is that they are employed as specialist
education/school counsellors with a counselling qualification.

They are not employed to undertake any other function but as
specialist counsellors.

Yours sincerely,

C McEwan

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10 August 2009

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From: Freedom of Information Mailbox
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19 August 2009

Dear C McEwan

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 - INFORMATION REQUEST

Thank you for contacting Buckinghamshire County Council.

Further to your request for information and clarification of your request,
our response is as follows:

Taking your definition of an "Education Counsellor" provided in your email of
10 August 2009, our response is no information held. It would appear that
your request might be referring to the Connexions Service, which is attached
to schools (but is independent of the Council). It is our understanding that
there are 80 Connexions advisors in Buckinghamshire
(http://www.connexions-direct.com/).

We hope that this additional information is of help.

If you have any further queries or concerns then please contact us.

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You can also complain to the Information Commissioner at:
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